GNOME Shell Browser Plugin Crash in Mozilla Firefox Patched for GNOME 3.18 | Linux Today

GNOME Shell Browser Plugin Crash in Mozilla Firefox Patched for GNOME 3.18

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Marius Nestor
Nov 18, 2015

It appears that two bugs have been fixed in GNOME Shell 3.18.3, and according to one of the bug reports, the GNOME Shell browser plugin crashed WebKit on the extensions.gnome.org website because the plugin used GLib types registered statically.

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Marius Nestor

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